BAD FOR THE BULLOCK.
Naihek, April 15
The excursion train coming fr om the Danovirko sports to-day ran into a bullock a quarter of a mile soullq of Matamau. The engine was derailed, and turned right over a number of empty trucks, which wero reduced to splinters.
As far as can be learned, nobody was injured, though the driver and fireman must have had a narrow escape.
The train which left Napier at 1.35 wont onto the scene of the accident and picked up the passengers for Napier, but it is ox-
pectod it will not reach hero till about 1.30 a.in.
A gang of men was sent on from Make hiku to remove tho debris.
It is {believed the bullock was fast in the cattle stop. Great damage has been done to the rolling stock.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1260, 23 April 1896, Page 37
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